The video is part of a longer film which sees him play the role of film director for the first time in his life.

He said: “I’ve never worked so hard at something ever. I’ve alwayas wanted to do it and never had the confidence. When we took our album to our company they said we had got eight singles and to me that means eight videos.

"I’d been really inspired after seeing a continuous feature film called Victoria which is set in Berlin and thought maybe we could do our own videos for the album. We were first going to do it one big long take but that would have been a nightmare.

Fran Healy and co are all suspended in giant baby carriers in the video for 3 Miles High (Photo: Travis/VEVO)

"Instead we found a brill producer, and personally one of the best directors of photography, and a cool camera man.

"I soon got into full blag mode. We got this really big crew and cast of around sixty people and shot it all in Berlin and it’s now like eight different videos connected together with a very loose story line. We even need to get a film rating for it now.”

Fran said of his baby carrier experience: “The song is about how we are all a little bit disconnected and our feet are not completely on the ground. It was all a bit surreal. We had four of the world’s strongest men including my guy Rob Frampton and they were such good sports. I was like ‘Listen. Do you want to carry us around in baby harnesses? How do you pitch to these guys who can lift trucks? I’m 60 kilos, eleven stone, but Neil, Dougie and Andy are heavy.”

I’ve got funny photos of me having to walk back to the beginning of the take with Rob behind me and it looks like I’m carrying him.”

Fran also paid tribute to David Bowie as Travis prepare to release his album Everything At Once on April 29. He said: “I met him when I was 28 years old 16 in my mind. I had to keep it together. It’s David Bowie. What do you say to him? ‘Alright mate? How you doing pleased to meet you', and then p*** your pants and cause you are so excited you try to remain cool as you walk away, pants well p***ed.”